We welcome you, Sir, to the presidency of the Security Council and thank the delegation of Chile for organizing this meeting on the subject of peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict. We would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General for his briefing and Ambassador Patriota of Brazil for h…
The Russian Federation regrets that the Security Council was unable to adopt draft resolution S/2014/916, which would have strengthened the generally recognized international legal basis for the Middle East peace process, including the resolutions of the Security Council, the Madrid terms of referen…
We opposed the initiative to hold this meeting. We believe that it could well have negative consequences in terms of maintaining the effectiveness of the work of the Security Council and other United Nations bodies.
The Council is often criticized for the fact that it is increasingly involved in ma…
This month, the Council’s agenda has been unusually dense. We are grateful to you personally, Mr. President, and to the entire Chadian delegation for skilfully and effectively discharging your presidential functions.
As per custom, Council members have been addressing the issues of the Middle East …
Today’s discussion has once again demonstrated that our Ukrainian colleagues, as ever, see terrorists, threats of terrorism and transnational organized crime in places where other members of the international community do not. We believe that
Ukraine’s abuse of the topic of today’s discussion under…
We are grateful to the delegation of Chad for its timely initiative to hold today’s meeting on such an important and urgent issue. We should like to thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Feltman, and the Permanent Observer of the African Union, Mr. António, for their substantive briefings.
I would…
We thank Mr. Haysom for presenting the Secretary-General’s quarterly report on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (S/2014/876), as well as Mr. Fedotov for his substantive briefing on the issues with which he is tasked concerning the problem of drug…
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs, for this reporting period. As this is Mr. Quinlan’s last briefing as Chair of the Committee, we would like to thank him and the Australian …
At the outset, we wish to thank the delegation of Chile for its constructive efforts in preparing resolution 2193 (2014), extending the mandate of the Judges and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
We are ext…
First of all, we would like to add our voice to the condolences expressed here concerning the horrific terrorist attack in Pakistan.
We welcome you, Mr. Minister, as the President of the Security Council. We listened attentively to the briefings. We would like to thank the Secretary- General, Mr. B…
We asked for the floor in exercise of the right of reply in connection with the fact that the statement made by the representative of Ukraine included certain political assessments, in particular regarding the convoys of humanitarian assistance that Russia has been sending to Donbas. The word “illeg…
I would first like to congratulate the People’s Republic of China on its successful chairing of the Kimberley Process in 2014, and to express our appreciation to the Chinese delegation for preparing today’s draft resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict (A/69/L.39), which we support a…
We take note of the twentieth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation of the investigation in Darfur. We are grateful to Ms. Bensouda for her comments on the document.
The military, political and humanitarian situation in Darfur remains complex. Intercomm…
The Russian Federation has traditionally supported the humanitarian efforts of the United Nations and is constantly increasing the scope of its cooperation with major organizations. We take a positive view of the progress that has been achieved by the Emergency Relief Coordinator in the reforms to e…
We are grateful to Ms. Sellassie for her briefing, which reflects the evolution of the situation in the Sahel region in all its manifold aspects, as well as the main challenges and the steps being taken to implement the United Nations integrated strategy in the Sahel. The events in this turbulent ar…
The Russian Federation welcomes and supports the efforts of the United Nations, and especially of the World Health Organization (WHO), to bolster multilateral cooperation and assistance and strengthening national health-care capacities. Considering health care one of the priorities of the future glo…
I, too, should like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the Residual Mechanism for their briefings. We have taken note of the report of the leadership of the Tribunals and of…
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, of 1982. We join others in underscoring the historical significance of the Convention — a document that is undoubtedly unprecedented in its scale and its scope. This is the only …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vučić, and we share his concerns. We take note of the statement of Mr. Hashim Thaçi. We thank Mr. Farid Zarif for submitting the report (S/2014/773) of the Secretary-
General on the activities of the Uni…
The United Nations International Year of the Family, established in 1994, is of definite and ongoing significance. It is encouraging that the twentieth anniversary of the event has become a catalyst for an active discussion on the role and place of the family as the key institution for society in th…
